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Yarmouth South Town bench

Yarmouth South Town bench

1862-1922
St Pauls Cathedral divine service

St Pauls Cathedral divine service

1919
Great Eastern Hotels

Great Eastern Hotels

circa 1890s
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1907

1907
Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outings, 1903-1911

1903-1911
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1903

1903
Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

Great Eastern Railway Company order of service

1922
GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

GER: To the Continent by the Harwich Steamer

1914
GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

GER: The Official Guide to the Great Eastern Railway

1910
Great Eastern Railway menu card

Great Eastern Railway menu card

1912
Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

Restaurant Cars Wine List and Tariff for Third Class

1919
Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

Great Eastern Railway Cheap Excursions Notice

1888
Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

Great Eastern Railway Liverpool Street City Terminus drawing

circa 1864-circa 1875
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909
portrait of charles hubbard

portrait of charles hubbard

Harlow Garden Village

Harlow Garden Village

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

1905
Parkeston Quay Harwich

Parkeston Quay Harwich

1912
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

Itinerary sheet for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909
Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

Royal Wedding - Departure from Liverpool Street Station of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York

1893
Station seat, Grimsby & Immingham Electric Railway, slatted from front to back, wood, painted green, plates attached: "GRIMSBY C.B. FOR PASSENGERS ONLY", in use at the Corporation Bridge terminus.

Station Seat, Great Eastern Railway

1912-1922
Headboard, Great Eastern Railway, cast iron, royal coat-of-arms.

Royal coat-of-arms headboard, Great Eastern Railway

1862-1923
Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900
Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle, green glass missing, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by Saxby & Farmer, London.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle, two glasses cracked, crossing gate signal, lower quadrant, Great Eastern Railway, made by EC & JK Ltd.

Semaphore signal arm with integral spectacle and secondary spectacle

Telegraph Block Instrument, Great Eastern Railway, 2-position absolute block type, sending and receiving with tapper and combined gong.

Telegraph Block Instrument

Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter, 'Engineer's Saloon' enclosing 'GER', by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Plate, ceramic, Great Eastern Railway, white glaze with black geometric pattern around rim with pink lining, marked at centre garter ‘Engineers Saloon’ enclosing ‘GER’, by Royal Crown Derby.

Plate, GER Engineer's Saloon

Headboard, Royal Coat-of-Arms, Great Eastern Railway, carried by the train which conveyed the Duke and Duchess of York from Liverpool Street, London to Wolferton, for Sandringham, following their wedding in July 1893.

Royal Coat of Arms, Great Eastern Railway

1893
Platform bench, Great Eastern Railway, monogram on bench ends, cast by Warner, London, 1900-1910.

Platform Bench, Great Eastern Railway

1900-1910
Model steam locomotive, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton"

1900
Great Eastern Railway instruction manual "Regulations for Working Sykes' Lock and Block and Double and Single Line Block Telegraph and Electric Train Tablet," 1 January 1909. Issued at Liverpool Street Station, 21 December 1908. 132pp.

Regulations for Working Sykes' Lock and Block and Double and Single Line Block Telegraph and Electric Train Tablet

1908-12-21
Two itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Mineral Manager's Department 9th Annual Outing at Hastings. Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted, 27/28 May 1910.

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1910

1910
Two itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Mineral Office (London), 10th Annual Outing to Felixstowe via Ipswich and the Orwell. Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted, 20 May 1911.

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1911

1911
Model steam locomotive tender, scale 1:8, Great Eastern Railway 4-4-0 passenger express No. 1900 "Claud Hamilton", prototype built 1900, model built 1900 by George Perry, Erecting Shop foreman at Stratford Works, awarded Gold Medal at Paris exhibition in 1900.

Model of steam locomotive "Claud Hamilton" tender

1900
Two itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway, Mineral Manager's Department 8th Annual Outing to Bournemouth. Highly decorated, hand drawn and photostatted, 21/22 May 1909.

Itinerary sheets for Great Eastern Railway Outing, 1909

1909
Great Eastern Railway Christmas greetings letter to the staff, dated 23 December 1919. Issued from the general manager office, Liverpool Street Station, London.

Christmas letter to the staff, Great Eastern Railway

1919
Portfolio of original and blue print general arrangement locomotive drawings from various companies collected by Sir William McAlpine. Most drawings are signed by chief mechanical engineers responsible. Includes drawings for locomotives from Great Southern Railway (Ireland), Great Southern & Western Railway (Ireland), Grand Trunk Railway (Cananda) Great Northern Railway, Great Eastern Railway, London, Chatham and Dover Railway, Rhodesia Railways (built by North British Locomotive Company), London and North Western Railway, as well as the Para Central De Aragon (Spain) 2-8-2+2-8-2 Garratt locomotive, 4-6-2 Type 10 locomotive for Belgian Railways.

McAlpine Drawing Collection

1849-1940
Reprinted Eastern Union and Eastern Counties Railways poster from June 1st 1848. Reprinted by the Great Eastern Railway at the company works, in 1898. The poster gives details of trains traveling between London, Bury, Ipswich, Hadleigh, Colchester and the Hadleigh branch of the Eastern Union Railway.

Reprinted EU & ECR poster

1898
Button, GER, Waistcoat button, depicts dragon's wing within star, silver plate, Dimensions: 1/2" dia.

GER waistcoat button

Button, GER, Jacket button, depicts dragon's wing within star. Silver plate 3/4" dia.

GER jacket button

Button, Great Eastern Railway, Coat button, depicts dragon's wing within star, silver plate, Dimensions: 1" dia.

Coat button, Great Eastern Railway

Map of Great Eastern Railway main lines and connections, on reverse suburban lines and connections, scale 1 mile - 1 ".

Map of Great Eastern Railway

1900-1923
Timetable No. 1 Supplementary Working Timetables of special passenger trains & other arrangements for week ending 17 June 1893, for Bass & Co.'s excursion to Yarmouth & back, issued by Great Eastern Railway.

no 1supplementary working timetables of special passenger trains

1893
Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area, Hills Road to Mill Road, scale 1 chain - 1" Great Eastern Railway land agent's office, revised 1909.

Plan of Cambridge Station and surrounding area

1909
Travel guide, Great Eastern Railway, Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia, by Percy Lindley, illustrations by Oscar Wilson, describing resorts around the East coast of Britain, 64 pages, with card cover.

GER: Seaside and Countryside in East Anglia

1915